BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE LOOK ALIKE, NOT BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE ARE NOT BEAUTIFUL IN THEIR OWN WAY

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the similarities and differences in describing people’s appearance, including the demonstration of the ideals of beauty and ugliness in the minds of Russians and Chinese by comparing stable comparisons with zoonyms in these languages, which will help foreigners studying these languages to avoid mistakes. On the basis of the ideographic classification, the author divides the collected stable comparisons into groups: regular comparisons describing eyes, nose, hair, lips, and other parts of the body. One of the conclusions after the comparison and analysis is that beautiful people are similar to each other, and ugly people are not beautiful in their own way. These materials represent an important resource for the study of Russian and Chinese languages, the results of the study are of practical importance for successful intercultural communication.